Florida · Nonprofit
BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC
BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,809,683 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($375,891). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $945k
What Be Strong International Inc does
Mission
To provide heart skills and healthy relationship education to youth and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Marriage mattersthe marriage matters program served 148 couples through bilingual (english and spanish) workshops to strengthen communication, build emotional closeness, and improve long-term family stability.
$1,202,611 spent39% of program spendingYouthproject h.o.p.e. Served 1,527 youth with tools to develop healthy relationship skills, improve communication and empathy, and strengthen decision-making.the be strong after school club (bsasc) was held at four sites throughout miami-dade and broward counties, serving 206 middle school students. The program offered unique experiences, including academic support, enrichment activities, and heart skills, helping students build confidence, responsibility, and teamwork while improving academic performance.
$773,053 spent25% of program spendingFamilythe parent club program served 5,697 parents and caregivers through multilingual (english, spanish, and creole) workshops, helping them gain positive parenting tools. The fathers first program served 113 fathers through workshops, peer discussions, and hands-on learning to promote empathy, accountability, and healthier father-child dynamics. The family strengthening program (fsp) served 189 participants (parents/caregivers and youth ages 1216) from 64 families through coaching sessions to strengthen family functioning, improve parentchild communication, and increase positive behavior-management skills.
$1,143,803 spent37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,119,467.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+93%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 91% · 2022 84% · 2023 78% · 2024 81% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michelle Shirley
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $4k → $527k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 32% · 2021 63% · 2022 62% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $820k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.5M on record — $10.1M federal, $334k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.6M
- Department of Justice$500k
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $325k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $9k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC?
- BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,809,683 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($375,891). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,809,683 in grants to BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,891 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing